# Christina, Queen of Sweden

> She walked away from a throne at twenty-seven - Sweden's queen who refused to marry, converted to Catholicism in a Protestant kingdom, and spent the rest of her life in Rome where a pope called her "a woman without shame" even as she became one of the few women ever buried in the Vatican.

*Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626-1689)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/christina-queen-of-sweden

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Country:** Sweden
- **Born:** 1626-12-07
- **Died:** 1689-04-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Christina became queen at five when her father Gustavus Adolphus died at the Battle of Lützen in 1632, though she didn't rule the Swedish Empire until eighteen. She wanted Stockholm to be the "Athens of the North" and pushed for peace to end the Thirty Years' War, but her lavish spending nearly bankrupted the state - she once issued copper in lumps as currency during the 1644 Torstenson War. Erudite and unconventional, she adopted masculine attire and refused marriage, choices that fed scandal when combined with her conversion to Catholicism. In 1654 she abdicated to her cousin Charles X Gustav and moved to Rome, where she threw herself into the Baroque arts scene, protecting composers and artists while serving as a living symbol of the Counter-Reformation. Five popes hosted her, and she's buried in the Vatican Grottoes - one of the few women granted that honor.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 64.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.3 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 8.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Politicians, #Historical Figure, #Royalty, #Painting, #Literature, #Philosophy, #Politics, #Sweden

## Sources
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- [Kristiina](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristiina)
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christina_of_Sweden)
- [Wikiquote](https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cristina_de_Suecia)

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